Inheritance of purity

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H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> In all seriousness, I think you're decoupling inherently 
>> ingrained
>> pieces: the language and it's tools. The same way you *need* 
>> syntax
>> highlighting to distinguish structure,
>
> I don't.

wait... you don't even use Syntax Highlighting? Are you insane, 
you'll go blind!


>> And MS has pulled some really stupid shit in its day, but it's
>> developer tools and support do not fall under that category.
>
> True, they have their value. I don't argue with that.
>
> But why should anyone be *forced* to use them? They're just 
> tools. A
> language is a language (a set of syntax and grammar rules with 
> the
> associated semantics). It's not inherently tied to any tools.

The only reason Visual Studio being so closely tied to C#/VB/etc 
is a bad thing is because it's closed source and ultimately 
designed as [yet another] developer lock-in (just good business 
right?). Beyond that it's really silly not to use VS cause of all 
the productive features it provides. MonoDevelop is catching up, 
but still quite a ways behind in some areas. No one is stopping 
anyone from writing code in Notepad.. but then, no one is 
stopping 3D artists from manually editing .obj files in Notepad 
either.